The Hottest Restaurant Chain in America Has a Pitch Very Different From Others. People Are Absolutely Obsessed.
People will fly 16 hours to try it—and leave true converts.
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Donald Trump Has Finally Wielded His Presidential Power for Good
RIP to one of air travel’s most cursed features.
Money Talks: The Path to Affordable Childcare
Yale researcher Martha Gimble explains The Budget Lab’s research into early childhood education and care policies.
What the Shell?
The Trump administration is axing a bipartisan anti-corruption law that would require shell companies to disclose their beneficiaries.
‘The MMR vaccine is not a lethal vaccine,’ Mehmet Oz says
The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was asked three times to clarify claims made by President Donald Trump earlier this month.
Trump offered state Medicaid programs lower prices on weight-loss drugs. Most are rejecting the deal.
Blue and red states say accepting federal help to expand access to drugs like Wegovy for America’s poorest patients is too much of a drain on their budgets.
Democrats see political gain in Ohio’s health care pain
Surging costs and plummeting insurance coverage could give Ohio Democrats their best chance in years to win back power.
RFK Jr.’s barnstorming the country for the GOP
The health secretary toured the heartland this week while Trump nominated a loyal aide to lead one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agencies.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes?
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
Vance asks Mainers to vote Republican — as Trump ups the trade war with Canada
Vice President JD Vance’s visit marked his second to Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in four months.
In Defeat for AIPAC, Aisha Wahab Wins House Seat, Becoming First Afghan American in Congress
Progressive California state lawmaker Aisha Wahab made history last week in a special election that will make her the first Afghan American in Congress. Wahab overcame a flood of attack ads from pro-Israel groups to beat her Democratic rival, Melissa Hernandez, in a race to replace disgraced Congressmember Eric Swalwell, who resigned in April amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
Trump Plans to Buy Midterm Ads About His Own Record
President Trump gathered his top political advisers in the Oval Office early this month to solve a problem of riches: how to spend his super PAC’s $400 million political war chest with fewer than 100 days to go before the midterm elections.
Republican strategists are concerned about Trump’s low approval ratings and voter anxiety about the economy.
We’re Living in the World Dolly Parton Built
Dolly Parton’s death at age 80 comes at a time when her influence seems at its peak. Country music is surging, female singer-songwriters are on top, and audiences seem hungry for honest idiosyncracy—for figures who, like Dolly, transmit their inner truth to mass audiences in a voice that’s clear yet scraggly. But Parton’s greatest legacy is existential in nature. Piling on wigs and feathers, she showed that you can be yourself while playing a character.
ICE Has Quietly Changed Its Deadly-Force Rule
ICE quietly enacted new rules this month that will keep officers involved in deadly-force incidents—such as firing a gun and using a choke hold—off the streets until the completion of an investigation. Previously, these officers were able to return to their regular job in as few as three days.
The Transcendence of Dolly Parton
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Dolly Parton transcended.
It almost didn’t matter what: class, gender, region, musical genre, partisanship. She transcended boundaries in all of them.
Dolly Parton: Photos From an Extraordinary Life and Career
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Dolly Parton performs at the Mill Run Theater in Niles, Illinois, on August 29, 1977.Michael Ochs Archives / Getty
Dolly Parton and her collaborator Porter Wagoner perform onstage, circa 1967.Ron Hill / The Oklahoman / USA Today Network / Reuters
Dolly Parton and the Wagon Masters pick and sing for a Civic Center Music Hall audience in Oklahoma City on October 8, 1968.Gary Null / NBC / Getty
Dolly Parton sings for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show on December 14, 1977.
2 unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania
The U.S. has reported more than 2,700 measles cases this year, the highest annual count since 1991.
Meet Prairieland Protester Autumn Hill: How Her “Act of Solidarity” Became a 50-Year Prison Sentence
“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July. Hill is one of nine protesters convicted of terrorism-related charges after federal prosecutors accused them of being members of an “antifa terror cell.
Illinois Is a Sanctuary State, But Cops & Prosecutors Still Secretly Work with ICE: Injustice Watch
We speak to journalist Aura Bogado, whose new investigation into Illinois law enforcement and prosecutorial collaboration with ICE has revealed that dozens of immigrants have been arrested and deported with the help of local officials in violation of the state’s sanctuary law. “Those are 150 individuals whose lives were very often changed, communities completely split apart,” says Bogado about her reporting.
U.S. Threatens New Economic War on Iran by Targeting China & Tehran’s Other Top Trading Partners
The Trump administration has announced unspecified plans to further tighten sanctions on Iran, threatening other countries, including China, in the process. We speak to sanctions expert Nicholas Mulder about what he calls the “rhetorical” and “psychological warfare” of the announcement. For Iran, says Mulder, the announcement was not “really materially all that meaningful. And to the extent that they are, they hurt ordinary Iranians and not the government.” The impact on the U.S.
Donald Trump Has Finally Wielded His Presidential Power for Good
RIP to one of air travel’s most cursed features.
Money Talks: The Path to Affordable Childcare
Yale researcher Martha Gimble explains The Budget Lab’s research into early childhood education and care policies.
What the Shell?
The Trump administration is axing a bipartisan anti-corruption law that would require shell companies to disclose their beneficiaries.
‘The MMR vaccine is not a lethal vaccine,’ Mehmet Oz says
The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was asked three times to clarify claims made by President Donald Trump earlier this month.